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Rural India Moving Towards a Better Future: UN Official
"Most of the states in India are peaking at the right time. The government initiative and role of rural Indians in the field of sanitation and poverty alleviation is showing its results," said Lizette Burgers, chief of water and sanitation, UNICEF India.
"In spite of its huge size in terms of both population and geography, the country is doing extraordinarily well. The initiative in the field of child health, polio eradication and curbing open defecation are really yielding results," Burgers told IANS in an interview.
Elaborating on the role of villagers in taking India to new heights, she said a few years ago she had gone to Hivar Bazaar village in Maharashtra and found 189 of the 228 families there to be living below the poverty line.
"Last week I visited the village again and found that of the 189 families, 186 now have good living conditions. This is called change. It's happening in many parts of the country and must happen in all villages," she said.
She pointed out that India is implementing one of the largest national water supply and sanitation programmes in the world with annual resource allocation of $1.3 billion.
She, however, noted that some states like Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh needed to keep the momentum going to achieve substantial progress.
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